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EDWARDS, ROGER (1811 - 1886), Calvinistic Methodist minister Born 26 January 1811 at Bala, the son of Roger and Elizabeth Edwards. Brought up at Dolgelley and educated there at Lewis William of Llanfachreth's school, he subsequently was at the grammar school at Bala. Following an abortive attempt to train him as a shop assistant, he was sent to Evan Rowland's school in Liverpool and then to the seminary kept by John Hughes (1796 - 1860) at Wrexham. From
EDWARDS, SYDENHAM TEAST (1768 - 1819), botanical and animal draughtsman Christened at Usk, 5 August 1768, son of Lloyd Pittel Edwards, a schoolmaster and organist at Usk and Abergavenny, and Mary (Reece?) his wife (of Llantilio Crossenny). His drawing ability brought him to the notice of William Curtis, botanist and entomologist, who sent him to London to study drawing. From 1798 to 1814 Edwards contributed nearly all the drawings for The Botanical Magazine and
EDWARDS, THOMAS (Twm o'r Nant; 1739 - 1810), poet and writer of interludes printed at Trevecka, appeared in 1790. An occasional well-turned couplet in his cywyddau proves that he was conversant with the works of the 15th and 16th century poets. He had collected a number of manuscripts, which he sold to William Owen Pughe and which are now at the British Museum. Twm o'r Nant was a prominent competitor in the early eisteddfodau patronized by the Gwyneddigion Society. In the
EDWARDS, THOMAS DAVID (1874 - 1930), musician ), ' Shepherd's Lullaby,' and songs - ' Bugeiles y Glyn ' and ' Cymru.' It was his hymn-tune, ' Rhyd-y-groes,' which, however, made his name best known. He died 15 March 1930 and was buried in Glyn-taff cemetery, Pontypridd.
EDWARDS, WILLIAM (1773 - 1853), hymnwriter
EDWARDS, WILLIAM (1851 - 1940), H.M. inspector of schools Born at Denbigh 22 January 1851, son of William Edwards. He was educated at a private school there, at the Liverpool Institute, and at Queen's College, Oxford [ 1869 ], where he had a brilliant university career. He took first class honours in classical moderations and Greats, and a first class also in the final mathematical schools [ B.A. 1873, M.A. 1876 ]. He was elected [ 1874 ] Fellow of
EDWARDS, WILLIAM (1848 - 1929), Baptist college principal
EDWARDS, WILLIAM (Gwilym Callestr, Wil Ysgeifiog; 1790 - 1855), poet . Talhaiarn (John Jones, 1810 - 1869) and Caledfryn (William Williams, 1801 - 1869) had a monument placed on his grave at Ysgeifiog, Flintshire. The precise days of his birth and death have not been ascertained.
EDWARDS, WILLIAM (Cymro Gwyllt; 1826 - 1884), stonemason and musician
EDWARDS, WILLIAM (1719 - 1789), Independent minister, and architect that of Harri Smith, his labourer at Bryn-tail, whose eloquence had astonished that ' Old Prophet.' In 1743 a small meeting-house was built beside a field named Waen-fach, near the site of the present Independent chapel at Groes-wen. The congregation, originally a Methodist society, incorporated itself as an Independent church in 1745 and ordained Edwards and Thomas William (1717 - 1765) as its joint
EDWARDS, WILLIAM (Gwilym Padarn; 1786 - 1857), poet
EDWARDS, WILLIAM (1751 - c.1791), soldier - gweler EDWARDS, WILLIAM

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325 - 336 of 1867 for "William Glyn"